From Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson, Apothegms (1787)
Samuel Johnson: Citáty anglicky (strana 9)
Samuel Johnson byl anglický spisovatel. Citáty anglicky.
Samuel Johnson:
418
citátů
306
lajků
In response to Hannah More wondering why Milton could write Paradise Lost but only poor sonnets. June 13, 1784, p. 542
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
“All this [wealth] excludes but one evil,—poverty.”
1777
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
July 14, 1763, p. 123
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
“A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.”
1770, p. 182
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
“Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.”
April 2, 1775
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
“In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.”
1775
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
“A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly.”
August 16, 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)
August 15, 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)
Stanza 9
Elegy on the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, A Practiser in Physic (1783)
Stanza 5
Elegy on the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, A Practiser in Physic (1783)
Samuel Johnson
kniha
A Dictionary of the English Language
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
September 1, 1777
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
“Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see.”
October 12, 1779
On the Giant's Causeway. A similar opinion was expressed by the English traveller Richard Twiss in 1775 in A Tour of Ireland http://books.google.ie/books?id=ujpIAAAAMAAJ, p. 157
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Letter to James Boswell, December 7, 1782, p. 494
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
“Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.”
May 1776
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
July 28, 1763, p. 128
On Thomas Sheridan
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
Samuel Johnson
kniha
A Dictionary of the English Language
Preface http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/preface.html
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
“A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.”
April 14, 1772, p. 201
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II
Samuel Johnson
London
"The Bravery of the English Common Soldiers" http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5L9GAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA306&dq=%22Liberty+is%22&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ei=QMMqU_f7MMPMhAeAwoC4DA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Liberty%20is%22&f=false. Note: This essay was "added to some editions of The Idler, when collected into volumes, but not by Dr. Johnson" — vide The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 2 (London, 1806), footnote http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uYPfXTOfTTsC&pg=PA427&dq=%22This+short+paper%22&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ei=DcgqU_PlN_Ha0QXQyoDoAw&ved=0CGIQ6AEwBjgU#v=onepage&q=%22This%20short%20paper%22&f=false on p. 427